PA lawmakers now have plaques noting their crimes attached to their portraits

PA lawmakers now have plaques noting their crimes attached to their portraits

Four Pennsylvania lawmakers that have been convicted of a crime now have a plaque attached to their portraits at the State Capitol in Harrisburg.

The decision to add the plaques was a compromise between taking the pictures down all together.

‘Do you remove the portraits or do you do something else?’” said Stephen Miskin, a spokesman for House Speaker Sam Smith, a Republican from Punxsutawney. “You can’t change history, whether you like it or not. There was a feeling you should keep the portraits out there and let people make up their own mind.”

Robert Mellow (D)-Lackawanna Co pleaded guilty to political corruption and tax evasion.

Bill DeWeese (D)-Waynesburg and John Perzel (R)-Philadelphia were jailed in connection with using state resources for campaigning.

Herbert Fineman (D)-Philadelphia was convicted on two counts of obstruction of justice.